switching station

collocation in English

meaningsofswitchandstation

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switch
noun
uk
/swɪtʃ/us
/swɪtʃ/
a small device, usually pushed up or down with your finger, that controls and turns on or off an ...
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station
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsteɪ.ʃən/us
/ˈsteɪ.ʃən/
a building and the surrounding area where buses or trains stop for people to get on ...
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(Definition ofswitchandstationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The tunnel under the electricityswitchingstationhas to be ruled out because of high cost and grave threat to the construction programme.
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In the redundant power station, or majorswitchingstation, site is the belly of the transmission system.
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Perhaps we should have anotherswitchingstation.
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A less expensiveswitchingstationmay have different electrification systems at both exits with no switchable wires.
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The station was formerly aswitchingstation, and some of the old facilities can still be seen there.
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The batteryswitchingstationdemonstrated was set up similarly to a gas station automatic car wash.
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Bowman is transported via the monolith to an unknown star system, through a large interstellarswitchingstation, and sees other species' spaceships going on other routes.
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Normally no power flows from one side of aswitchingstationto the other side; it is like two adjacent paralleling stations which serve different electrical sections.
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Almost invariably the switching stations are still there, conferring enormous benefit on the land.
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The switching stations at both ends of the span still exist.
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To reduce losses in this case, intermediate switching stations may be installed, at which line segments can be switched off or parallelized.
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One way to accomplish this is by changing locomotives at the switching stations.
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There are no intermediate switching stations or taps.
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The second largest application for fluorine gas is sulfur hexafluoride, which is used as a dielectric medium in high voltage switching stations.
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Electrical sections encompass both tracks between a substation and the adjacent switching stations.
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The line had switching stations at each end of the span.
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The switching stations contain three autotransformers similar to the paralleling stations (which have one), and also have additional circuit breakers to allow segmentation of catenary and cross-connection between power zones.
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